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| -Short Attention Span Theater- |
| Joe Biden's deal to stave off 'crippling' rail strikes could fall apart within DAYS as workers seek concrete agreement on sick leave and days off (despite getting a 24% pay rise and back pay) |
| 2022-09-19 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #10 ^ When I worked in a repair depot, I used to make everyone laugh by saying "Management here considers customers to be a necessary evil." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-09-19 15:12 |
| #9 /\ I had it explained to me that 'bean counters' consider all Preventive Maintenance the same as 'unnecessary waste' on the profit/loss sheets ...until something breaks. Same sort of short term idiocy. |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-09-19 14:55 |
| #8 ^ Well, I botched the second half of that comment, but ITYKWIM. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-09-19 14:50 |
| #7 Pretty much every single Comp Sci 101 class has a scheduling problem as a programming exercise. I do get it's more complex for a big real-world enterprise, but the abuses I've been reading about in the comments here sound more like malicious intent than simple incompetence. Yes, yes, I know the saying to never attribute the second to what can be explained by the first. I just don't see that in the examples presented so far. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-09-19 14:48 |
| #6 as I understand it the pay raise is not the issue the work scheduling is the issue the tentative agreement gave workers one (yes, one) day a year of paid sick leave and up to 5 (not sure about that) days per year of unpaid sick leave RRs argue, with some validity, that with millions of dollars of cargo on the line they have to have workers on the job reliably-- workers argue, with some validity, that the sick leave policy is much less than, say autoworkers or steelworkers or dockworkers. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2022-09-19 14:44 |
| #5 Google theBNSF attendance policy to see a prime example of ‘management by stupidity;’ they (managers) cannot find enough labor (after covid firings), so now they want to punish those remaining. Not a fan of unions, but this policy is beyond anything even Bidet could come up with. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2022-09-19 14:07 |
| #4 Another 'Biden claimed victory', in his own mind. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-09-19 13:47 |
| #3 Duh - proofread before hitting send - inflation currently 8% |
| Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 2022-09-19 12:33 |
| #2 A 24% pay raise across 5 years is less than 5% a year. Official inflation is currently 5%. So that’s a guaranteed pay cut of 3% this year and how much in the next 4 years. Union members can do math if their management can’t |
| Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 2022-09-19 12:32 |
| #1 The Merde Touchâ„¢ strikes again! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-09-19 11:04 |